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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This would make charters more and more like entities that only benefit those who are already there and not the overall city and its taxpayers. It would also make the odds of admissions so dismal that many people would be discouraged and likely move to the suburbs. For individuals who are unlucky enough to be entering the lottery when there are not promising new charters starting, they will always be competing against both siblings and teachers, making it almost impossible to get in.[/quote]

Completely agree with everything in this post.[/quote]

How is any school supposed to benefit "the overall city and its taxpayers" in your view? Every school benefits the people who are there. Those who are "already there" are DC residents. They are taxpayers' children. The school serves the entire DC community by educating the children who attend. Every spot they take opens up a spot somewhere else where they would go if they weren't at the first school.

As for fleeing to the suburbs, have you been paying a single lick of attention for the last 10 years? When they haven't liked the available choices, DC parents have invested time and resources in their neighborhood schools or started new charter schools. There are at least half a dozen HRPCS now that didn't even exist when my 2nd grader was entering PK4, and numerous EOTP DCPS schools that I'd consider now but wouldn't have then. Charter schools will be stronger when their teachers are invested in the school because it educates their children. And teachers generally don't have massive broods that fill up all the available spaces.

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